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The ‘quest’
Did you do the RSPB Garden Bird Watch at the weekend? We ummed and ahhed about it but in the end decided it would just be too depressing. Probably quite high on the list of ways to put your child … Continue reading
Posted in Illustration, Wildlife
Tagged bird feeder, birds, evening class, Garden Birdwatch, hero, illustration, Janis MacKay, logo, quest, RSPB, tennis club, writing
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Burns night
For those of you who don’t know (shame on you!) it is Burns Night on Sunday. Poor Little Owl is having a hard time of it. She is having to learn a Burns poem to recite by heart for school. … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Burns, Burns night, dialect, haggis, illustration, language, neeps, oat cakes, poem, poetry, Roguey pogey, school, scotland, Scots, shortbread, tatties
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Wild Hares and Hummingbirds
The sparrows have found our feeders! Granted it took minus temperatures for them to venture into our exposed garden but it’s a start. The hills behind our house were thick with snow this weekend. The trees wore strips of snow … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Wildlife
Tagged bird feeders, birds, blackthorn, children, church yards, gilbert white, gold crest, great tit, illustration, January, landscape, Mark, nature, Random House, seasonality, simplicity, skein, small birds, snow, Somerset, somerset levels, sparrows, Stephen Moss, The Natural History of Selbourne, Wild Hares and Hummingbirds, winter, yews
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Writing for Children
This week I started an evening class on writing for children tutored by children’s author Janis MacKay. That’s one of her lovely books there! There’s something slightly intoxicating about walking out of the house on my own in the evening … Continue reading
Posted in Illustration
Tagged anticipation, evening class, illustration, Janis MacKay, Selkie Girl, writing, writing for children
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Folk tales
Snow musters out of brooding grey skies and a powerful chill wind scatters wheelie bins like leaves. We aren’t managing to walk to school as often these days but when we do we stomp in icy puddles and count the … Continue reading
Posted in Illustration
Tagged Bendigeidfran, blether, Branwen, chilly wind, Disney, Floris Books, folk tales, Frozen, Gwyn Thomas, icy puddles, illustration, Irish Sea, John Bauer, Kevin Crossley-Holland, margaret jones, pied wagtail, school gate, snow, Sweden, Swedish Folk Tales, tales of the mabinogion, Wales, walking, weather, welsh
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Work in progress
“Shhh!” I say. “I didn’t say anything,” replies Big Dreamer innocently. “You’re breathing really loudly,” I growl. Deadlines loom!
Posted in Family and friends, Illustration
Tagged deadline, illustration
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Happy Christmas
Well there we go, Christmas parties have been attended, nativity plays have been applauded, carols have been sung, and the holidays are finally here. Time to put our feet up with a glass of mulled wine. This year we are flying … Continue reading
Posted in Illustration
Tagged carols, holidays, illustration, merry christmas, nativity
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Five doors down
We’re struggling for birdlife in our garden. I’d started off with great hope. We had a number of visitors over the summer. Granted they were of the townie variety but we’re not fussy. Garden birds are so companionable and we … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Wildlife
Tagged bird feeders, clematis montana, fat balls, garden birds, gardening, hedge sparrows, illustration, magpie, school run, wildlife
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Mouseless
Big Dreamer stepped out on to the pavement this morning and went sprawling. βWatch out for the ice!β he shouted back through the letterbox and slid off to catch his train. Fortunately Finch, Little Owl and I form quite a … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends, Illustration
Tagged black ice, brass band, carols, christmas, Christmas lights, Christmas list, Christmas tree, Cinderella, community theatre, illustration, Little Owl, mouse, pantomime, pram, school run, slalom, sleet
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“Everything is its own reward”
A few years ago my lovely brother-in-law gave me this book. Itβs called Everything Is Its Own Reward by artist, Paul Madonna. Everything Is Its Own Reward is a volume of work Madonna originally produced as a weekly strip (a … Continue reading
Posted in Illustration
Tagged art, artist, cityscapes, comic strips, comics, creativity, drawing, Everything is its own reward, illustration, journeyman years, Paul Madonna, San Francisco, San Francisco Chronicle
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